What is social media really costing you?

Enter how much time you spend on each platform. See what it adds up to — and what you could have done instead.

Daily time per app

📱
TikTok
Short video, endless scroll
45m
📸
Instagram
Feed, stories, reels
30m
🐦
X / Twitter
Feed, threads, news
20m
👥
Facebook
Feed, groups, marketplace
15m
🤖
Reddit
Threads, subs, rabbit holes
20m
👻
Snapchat
Stories, streaks, chat
10m
💼
LinkedIn
Feed, posts, networking
10m
✨
Other platforms
Pinterest, Threads, BeReal, etc.
10m

About you

Your hourly rate / value of time
Used to calculate the economic cost of your time
$ /hr
Reading speed
Average adult reads 200–300 words per minute

Daily time on social media

0h 0m

across all platforms

Per week

—

hours

Per year

—

days of your life

Economic cost/yr

—

value of time lost

% of waking day

—

spent scrolling

Time per platform — daily minutes

Breakdown by platform

What you could do with that time instead — per year

Cumulative hours lost over time

Note: Time estimates are based on your self-reported daily usage. Economic value of time uses your stated hourly rate. "What you could have done" benchmarks use standard averages: avg book length 90,000 words; language learning ~600hrs to conversational; marathon training ~16 weeks at 5hrs/week; online course ~40hrs.